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Pop and Me
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Pop and Me reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 62 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for brief drug content

This documentary follows the twenty-something filmmaker and his Baby Boomer father, Richard, as they take a six-month trip around the globe. (Fish Eggs)


GENRE(S): Documentary  
WRITTEN BY: (story) Erik Arnesen
Juliann Jannus
Mark Kornweibel
Jesse Negron
 
DIRECTED BY: Chris Roe  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 19, 2000 
Video: December 19, 2000 
Theatrical: June 9, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 91 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

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88
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
An entertaining, occasionally illuminating autodocumentary.
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80
The New York Times Stephen Holden
For a film devoted to celebrating intimacy and the breaking down of emotional barriers, Pop and Me is oddly withholding of information about the travelers.
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80
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
A documentary made with rigor, humor and no small amount of honest emotion.
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70
LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
The film quickly becomes a vortex of father-son bonding and rivalry, and what could have been a mere travelogue becomes a bumpy exploration of male identity and communication.
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70
Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
A satisfying, sentimental trip.
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67
Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
Everybody likes to watch the messy guts-stuff of other peoples' lives, if only because we know then we're not alone in our weird ways.
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60
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A funny, perceptive and seductively engaging movie.
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60
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Lots of men cry lots of tears in this supremely self-indulgent, supremely moving documentary about making a documentary.
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50
Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
The ultimate shallowness of this film is reflected in the fact that their key bonding moment occurs when they bungee-jump off a bridge together.
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50
Village Voice Amy Taubin
The most revelatory moment is provided not by the spectacle of the Roes clinging to each other on a bungee cord, but by Julian Lennon, who pops up on the beach in Monaco to give a terse evaluation of his father.
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38
New York Post Hanna Brown
A self-indulgent chronicle of Chris Roe's whiny power struggle with his father over where to eat dinner in various exotic locales.
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